Kevin Hart is returning to the small screen for a new season of the Real Husbands of Hollywood series that premieres February 10, and he’ll be joined by fellow cast members Duane Martin, JB Smoove, Nelly, Nick Cannon, Boris Kodjoe and Robin Thicke.
The new trailer for BET+’s Real Husbands of Hollywood: More Kevin, More Problems just dropped, and once again, Hart and his buddies — playing fictional versions of themselves — bring the funny.
Cynthia McWilliams and Jackie Long return to the cast, to which Michele Weaver and Angela Rye have been added for this go ’round. As usual, the show also boasts a variety of celebrity guests. The trailer alone features Tiffany Haddish, Dr. Phil and Neil DeGrasse Tyson — who Kevin thinks is Mike Tyson‘s “astronaut” father.
All six episodes of Real Husbands of Hollywood: More Kevin, More Problems will stream on BET+.
Sidney Poitier‘s memorial service will be private due to the pandemic.
“The Poitier family so appreciates the wonderful outpouring of love, support and affection for Sidney,” reads the family statement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “There have been many inquiries about an event to honor his life. At this time, due to the coronavirus pandemic, a private memorial service has been arranged for the family with the possibility of a more public memorial service should the virus’ numbers subside in the near future.”
The Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner star, who was the first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, died on January 6. He was 94. As previously reported, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced that Poitier passed away from a combination of cardiopulmonary failure, prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s dementia
In other news, production on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is expected to resume Monday, according to Entertainment Weekly. Shooting was halted in November as Letitia Wright, who portrays T’Challa’s sister, Shuri, recovered from an injury she sustained while filming a stunt in August. Production was initially scheduled to resume last week, however, it was pushed back after several people involved in the production — including Lupita Nyong’o, who stars as Nakia — tested positive for COVID-19.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is scheduled to open November 11.
Finally, Kandi Burruss has a new reality show. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, and her husband, Todd Tucker will feature their A-T-L restaurant, OLG, in the new series, Kandi & The Gang. They operate OLG with Kandi’s mother, Joyce, and aunts Nora and Bertha.Kandi & The Gang will premiere on Sunday, March 6 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo.
Chris Evans is joining forces with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for the latter’s big holiday movie Red One.
Marvel Studios’ Captain America has signed on to join the DC Universe’s Black Adam for the hush-hush Amazon Studios project, which was previously touted to Deadline by producer Hiram Garcia as, “Hobbs [& Shaw]-meets Miracle on 34th Street.“
Garcia, who is credited with coming up with the story, is Johnson’s producing partner at their successful Seven Bucks production company.
The trade reports Red One is slated to get underway later this year, reuniting Johnson with Jake Kasdan, the director of The Rock’s hit Jumanji movies.
While the film doesn’t come out until March 4, a two-minute clip of the upcoming The Batman has hit the Interwebs.
The snippet is a larger portion of a funeral scene glimpsed in the trailers: Robert Pattinson‘s Bruce Wayne is in a church, attending the funeral of a Gotham City official, when a woman prods the billionaire heir about the sad state of Gotham City. “You’re not doing anything!” she points out.
Pattinson, who doesn’t say a word in the clip, also overhears Jeffrey Wright‘s Commissioner Gordon discussing with his boss the disappearance of a colleague.
Just then, gunshots can be heard outside, and Pattinson’s expression shows that he wishes he had his Batsuit. He spies a lone figure looking at him from the church’s second floor who doesn’t flinch as the choir around him runs in fear — just as an SUV plows into the building and through pews, sending mourners scrambling.
Wayne grabs a kid out of the way in the nick of time, as the vehicle slams into the altar.
Cops order the driver out of the vehicle, and he emerges with his mouth duct-taped shut, with a cellphone taped to his hand and a bomb strapped around his neck. It’s the missing person.
As the phone rings, the man opens his coat to reveal a folder, on which is scrawled “To The Batman.”
As the clip draws to an end, the camera slowly zooms to Pattinson.
Clearly, the scary scenario is the work of Paul Dano‘s Riddler, who tangles with Pattinson’s Dark Knight this time around.
The film, which is directed by Matt Reeves, also stars Zoe Kravitz as Selena Kyle/Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Alfred, and Colin Farrell as The Penguin.
Netflix has dropped the new trailer to Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio, a stop-motion animated version of Carlo Collodi‘s children’s tale from the visionary The Shape of Water Oscar winner.
Gregory Mann voices the titular wooden marionette who gets his magic wish to become a flesh-and-blood boy; guiding him along the way is Ewan McGregor‘s Sebastian J. Cricket.
“It’s a story you think you know, but you don’t. Not really,” Cricket chuckles.
Game of Thrones and Hot Fuzz veteran David Bradley voices Pinocchio’s creator Geppetto, and the voice cast also includes Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Stranger Things lead Finn Wolfhard;del Toro’s Nightmare Alley co-star and Oscar winner Cate Blanchett; her fellow Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz; acclaimed actors John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson; and frequent del Toro collaborator Ron Perlman.
The film debuts exclusively on Netflix in December of 2022.
Jeopardy! phenomenon Amy Schneider opened up to Good Morning America Monday about her experience on the quiz show.
Schneider, who is currently tied with Matt Amodio with the second-longest winning streak in Jeopardy! history, told George Stephanopoulos, “I never expected to do this well.”
She added the “main secret” of her success is “just being curious and spending my life learning a lot of stuff.” That said, Schneider was once voted by classmates as, “most likely to be on Jeopardy!”
“I mean, I was good in school. I got good grades, I won the spelling bee. So yeah, I definitely — I did expect to be on Jeopardy! and to do all right, just never expected to do it quite this well,” she confessed.
Schneider admitted she had an interesting way of getting ready for the game show’s “buzzer,” which contestants use to offer their answers to the hosts. “I practiced at home with a ball-point pen,” she said.
However, Schneider said, “that first game, it wasn’t quite working as well as it needed to.” She added, “For whatever reason I decided to throw that out and stop thinking about it and purely try to go on instinct…”
One other thing Schneider wasn’t prepared for? Fame, she told Stephanopoulos. “There’s a bit of a gap between the taping and the airing, so I did have some time to like get used to the idea,” she laughed. “I didn’t really know what it would be or how famous is Jeopardy! famous. So it’s been a lot, but it’s mostly been just really fun.”
Schneider added, “I think that the best part for me has been being on TV, you know, as my true self, expressing myself and representing the entire community of trans people and … just being, you know, a smart, confident woman and doing something super normal like being on Jeopardy!”
The first of seven NFTs from Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction has sold at auction for $1.1 million.
As previously reported, the filmmaker curated a set of seven non-fungible tokens related to his Oscar-winning crime classic, with each promising exclusive access to seven scenes, including audio commentary and handwritten notes that promise “a unique look into the mind and creative process of Quentin Tarantino.”
After a bidding war — including “multiple bids in the six to seven figure range,” the first chapter, “Royale with Cheese,” was just purchased for $1.1 million, by an NFT collective called AnonDAO. The collective is dedicated to “the advancement of infrastructure protecting people’s right to privacy.”
The remaining six NFTs are set to auction daily through January 31. According to SCRT Labs, which is orchestrating the auction, “Only the purchaser has the power to see, sell and show the art to other people.”
“This groundbreaking NFT sale represents a monumental moment for our community, Quentin, and the Secret Network,” said Guy Zyskind, Founder and CEO of SCRT Labs in a statement.
L-R: Mickey Sumner, Katie McGuinness, Daveed Diggs; David Bukach/TNT
The third season of TNT’s Snowpiercerdebuts Monday night at 9 p.m. ET. The action-packed drama concerns a massive train carrying the last remnants of humanity on a non-stop journey around the globe, after the entire planet becomes a frozen wasteland. It’s a high-concept plot, but star Daveed Diggs believes that everyone can see themselves in Snowpiercer‘s diverse cast.
Diggs plays Andre Layton, a former detective who leads a rebellion against the train’s oppressive class system and its maniacal designer, played by Sean Bean. “There are a lot of points of entry for people,” Diggs tells ABC Audio.
“Every actor on there is giving these characters really full, lived experiences…and so I think there are a lot of ways to find yourself on Snowpiercer,” he explains. “It’s a pretty representative group of people…[and] if you have an ‘in’ to a story, then all of a sudden you can participate in it.”
And that representation has literally changed lives. Mickey Sumner plays security guard-turned-rebel Bess Till, who’s gay. Sumner says, “I had actually a woman reach out who was a cop, and she told me that because of Bess Till, she was able to come out to her colleagues at work and her family.”
Sumner’s amazed by the show’s fan engagement: Viewers create Snowpiercer-inspired artwork and dissect every plot detail online.
“People become really attached to these characters and really own them,” she says. “And I love that.”
But Snowpiercer‘s also a cautionary tale.
“This is an allegory of the present,” says Sumner ruefully. “There’s a lot of warnings about what not to do. And there’s also, sadly, lot, of similarities about how we treat people and how leadership fails people. So it’s been really interesting, at this time, to be part of this show.”
French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler has died, a statement on his official Instagram account confirmed Sunday. He was 73.
The cause of his death was not disclosed.
Mugler was known for his adventurous, theatrical designs, which have been worn by supermodels, Hollywood royalty and fashionistas all around the world.
Model Bella Hadid reacted to the post in a comment on Mugler’s Instagram. “Nonononono,” she wrote, along with a sad-face emoji.
“Fashion visionary and one of the most influential and admired designers of his generation Manfred Thierry Mugler passed away today,” the CFDA tweeted, along with a photo of supermodel Iman wearing one of Mugler’s designs on the runway.
“Gone to soon … God of fashion .. a rarely REAL, kindness , sweetest .. u ll be always missed by your Russian…,” model Irina Shaykwrote in an Instagram post, alongside a photo of herself with Mugler.
His death comes less than a week after fellow industry icon and former Vogue editor André Leon Talley died, also at age 73.
Mugler was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1948. While he was always interested in design, he was also passionate about classical dance, theater and cinema, and practiced ballet. His love of fantasy and Hollywood drama carried into his couture designs, making him an international sensation.
It was in the 1980s and 1990s when his career truly thrived, though in recent years, several of his inventive designs caused shockwaves on the red carpet. In 2019, he was responsible for Kim Kardashian‘s “wet look” dress for the Met Gala, and that same year dressed Cardi B in a pink and black “stormy Venus” dress for the Grammy Awards.
The designer also released various popular perfumes and a cosmetics line, Thierry Mugler Beauty.
He was also an author and artist. In 1988, his book of photography hit the stands, and 10 years later, he published Thierry Mugler: Fashion Fetish Fantasy, which offers an overview of his work as a designer and creator.
America’s Funniest Home Videos, the long-running ABC series that Bob Saget helped launch in 1989, will honor its original host for the rest of the season with a regular segment showcasing memorable moments from his time on the ABC series, according to Variety. “I’d forgotten how whimsical and crazy his host bits were — very physical and very visual,” executive producer Vin Di Bona tells the outlet. The segments will run at different times in this season’s 12 remaining episodes. Each will open with a quick-cut montage of Saget AFV moments and the chyron “AFV Remembers the Saget Years”…
Julian McMahon, star of FBI: Most Wanted, is exiting the CBS crime drama after almost three seasons, according to Deadline. The show is expected to introduce a new character later this season who will fill the void left by McMahon’s Jess LaCroix, an “agent’s agent” and head of the team from the FBI’s Most Wanted Unit. It is unclear yet how McMahon’s character would be written off. LaCroix is currently going through changes in his personal life, with his daughter Tali leaving for a boarding school in Canada. McMahon’s final episode is slated to shoot next week and will air March 8…
Sharyn Moffett, the child actress who starred alongside Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in 1948’s Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Body Snatcher, died December 23 of natural causes in a hospital in Pittsburgh, her brother Gregory Moffett, tells The Hollywood Reporter. She was 85. Moffett appeared in just 12 features during her career, which spanned seven years from 1944-51, ages 8 to 15. Her other credits include My Pal Wolf, A Boy, a Girl and a Dog, Rusty Leads the Way and Child of Divorce…
